Railway ticket



Jan. 18, 1927.

w. M. ROGERS RAILWAY TICKET Filed lay 20 INVENTOR 4. mi@ @woon m w MM5 im ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 18, 1927.

^ A UNITED STATES WILLIAM M. noenns, or wnrrnsviLLnj KENTUCKY.

RAILWAY TICKET.

Application lcd May 20, 1925. Serial No. 31,589.`

This invention relates to an improvement lin railway tickets, and is designed particularly to provide a ticket which may be readily adapted for any one of various pur- Vposes and therebyy greatly reduce the numbex' of tickets that have to be kept on hand.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a ticket of this character which may be easily converted from a roundtrip ticket to a single-trip ticket, or to a ha f-fare ticket, or to a clergy ticket, or to an emergency ticket and which while possessing these capacities and advantages has the essential characteristic of simplicity and is also easy and inexpensive to manufacture and easy to handle and adapted to its various uses and purposes. The ticket is also so constituted as not to lend itself to any alteration liable to result in cheating or defrauding of the railroad company.

Other objects and advantages reside in certain novel features of the construction, arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a ticket constructed in accordance with the present invention positioned in a cutter designed to separate the portion of the ticket intended for use by the traveller from the portion of the ticket to be retained by the railroad,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the front face of a ticket constructed in accordance with the present invention, and

Figure 3 is a view in section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawings and more especially to Figure 1, the numeral 1 designates generally a fiat rectangular sheet of paper or the like of which the ticket constituting the present invention is made. TheA indicia is displayed, the halves of the tickets are in duplicate although oppositely -arranged. Each half of the ticket has a panel 6 defined by the center line 4, a. parallel line 7 and portions of the cross lines 8, the cross lines 8 co-acting with the line 7 4and with a portion of the line 4 to define the :space 5 and the panel 6. In the panel 6 the lstationsalong the railroad line are listed, as

indicated at 9. Beyond one of the lines 8 a series of severa-ble tabs, designated at 10, 11. 12 and 13, are provided, the tabs 10, 11,12 and 13 consisting of integral portions o-f the ticket separated from each other by means of punched or serrated lines 14. The tab 10 has printed thereon the indicia Clerg the tab 11 the indicia Half fare; the tab 12 Single trip and the tab 13 Round trip. The tab 13 also may have applied thereto information as follows: Margin left on ticket shows form desired. Beyond the other cross line 8 at the other end of the ticket there is an emergency form, designated at 15, which is defined by a portion of the line 4, by one of the cross lines 8 and by the comprehended edges of the ticket. In the emergency form there is printed the word Emergency and there is also applied a dott-ed line 16 surmounted by the word To and having below the same the direction to Write destinationv with ink. From this it will be understood that on the dotted line the destination is to be written by the person issuing the ticket when it is necessary to use the emergency form.

When a ticket constructed in accordance with the present invention is issued the ticket agent inserts the same in a cutter, designated generally at 20, in Fig. 1. The cutter 20 comprises a base 21 and a knife 22 overlying the base and fastened at its ends, as at 23, to the base. The cutter has inclined cutting edges 24 and 25 and a cutting lip 26 between the edges 24 and 25. The ticket to be issued is slipped between the knife 22 and the base 21 and the station for travel to which the ticket is to be issued is aligned wit-h the cutting` lip 26. The knife 22 is then pressed down on the ticket and the ticket is torn along the edge 24, lip 26 and edge 25. This separates the portion ofthe ticket to be issued to the traveller from the auditors stub and leaves on the portion of the ticket to be issued to the traveller a project-ion opposite the station for travel to which the ticket has 11 been issued. The auditors stub is indented opposite such station. If the ticket is a round-trip ticket no further altera-tion of the saine is necessary. If a single-trip ticket the tab 13 of the two halves of the ticket are torn oli. If it is a half-fare ticket the tabs 12 and 13 are torn off and if it is a ticket issued to clergy the tabs 11, 12 and 13 are torn off. A ticket agent or other representative of the railroadwrites the destination in the emergency form only when it is desirable to Vissue such form of ticket.

In conjunction with the use of the ticket constituting the present invention it is essential that the ticket agent be required to return the detached tabs to the auditor of passenger receipts with his monthly report in order to preclude any possibility of an agent and conductor conspiring to defraud the rail- Way.

I claim:

1. A ticket having a series of severable tabs whereby the ticket may be used as a round-trip ticket, a single trip ticket, a halffare ticket, or a clergy ticket by severing the proper tabs, the tabs of highest value being located outermost of the ticket to preclude the possibility of the purchaser altering the ticket to defraud the railway.

2. A ticket having a series of severable tabs at one end `whereby the ticket may be used as a round-trip ticket, a single trip ticket, a half-fare ticket, or a clergy ticket by severing the proper tabs and also having an appropriately designated space at the end opposite the tabs for the insertion of indicia adapting it to be utilized to convert the ticket into an emergency ticket.

WILLIAM M. ROGERS. 

